Former Shin Bet chief slams IDF operation in Gaza

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"It seems that in the past few years Israel has lost its ability to hurt armed Palestinians without also hurting innocent civilians, including children," former Shin Bet chief Ami Ayalon said in a harsh reaction to the IDF operation in two Gaza Strip refugee camps Sunday, in which 15 Palestinians were killed.

"Israeli security forces have managed in the past to conducted targeted operations in which only those whom they wished to harm were harmed while others remained untouched," Ayalon said in an interview with Israel Radio.

Ayalon also said that that in case of a withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, Israel should evacuate Philadelphia corridor, in the south of the Gaza Strip. The former Shin Bet chief said that keeping IDF forces along the corridor following an IDF pullout from the rest of the Gaza Strip pauses a greater danger to Israel and its troops than evacuating the corridor.

Philadelphia corridor, several hundred-meter-wide, runs along the Egyptian border and separates Palestinian Rafiah from the Egyptian part of town."